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The Brussels Post, 1909-5-13, Page 2THE IYSTEIIIOIIS KEY OR, PLANNING POE THE FUTURE, CHAPTER I, "Gerald—It cannot be true." "It is true " There was a ring of triumph and jay in the voles; of the young man who spoke, and the sweet-faced wo- man thrilledat the tone of . con- fielenee with which the words were • uttered, "I cannot comprehend. It is all so strange. What a complication." "I have the proofs here," said Gerald Winchester, as he held up the papers in Ms hand. It was, indeed, a strange situa- tion ; the ,young man who, but a short time before, had been but a clerk in the office of the wealthy banker, Adam Brewster, now stand- ing proudly, with the mystery of his birth cleared by the strange re- velations that the ancient foot -stool had furnished, as the son and heir of the dead millionaire. Lady Bromley, who had been chiefly instrumental in the discov- ery of the precious documents in their strange hiding -place, gazed at her protege with eyes kindling with joy. "Ah, Gerald!" she cried eagerly; let me seethe papers, It seems al- most incredible," "Seel" he said excitedly, as he handed a paper to the woman; "this is a .certificate proving the marriage of Miriam Harris to Adam Brewster, in the year 18—, and here, dated a little less than a year afterward, is another to cer- tify to the baptism of Gerald Win- chester .Brewster." "Then—then you are not the son of Miss Winchester's brother, as you have al -ways supposed!" said Lady Bromley, after she had care- fully examined the papers which he had given her, "No, it seems not; at least, if my surmises are correct," Gerald replied, but with a look of perplex- ity sweeping over his face. "Every- thing seems terribly confused, as yet, and, possibly, I may have jumped at conclusions somewhat prematurely, but I hope not. You 1t see, there was a lot of rubbish ins that thing"—with a glance at the overturned cricket upon the floor,) "Perhaps I should not creak of it' in that way; but, at any rate, it' seemed like rubbish to me when I1 was looking it over; but, at the bot -1 tom, I came across a bulky enve-! lope addressed to me in my aunt's hand. In it were these papers, and several sheets which she had filled, and which will doubtless explain everything." "But who was Miriam Harris?" questioned her ladyship, still study- ing the certificate. Gerald turned back to the table and gathered up a couple of other papers lying there. "Miriam Harris, according to these documents, was the only child; of Martha Winchester, who married a certain Arthur Harris in 18—, some twenty-five years previous to the dateof those slips that you have. She must have been ayoun- ger sister of Aunt Honor's, which would make the latter my great- gphetesreeV 's about the lord of high de - "Well, in a certain sense, you were," he said, with an answering smile, "for although Mr. Brewster was invested with no title, he was an honest, noble man, which means more to me than any appellation, however exalted, and I am vet',f proud of being the son of such a fa- ther ; a-ther; only there will always be a sense of irreparable logs on ao- count of our mutual ignorance of the fact." "Yes, that does seem too bad," returned his friend, with a regret- ful sigh; "there are so many things that are too bad in this queer world of ours. Of course, you can- not feel otherwise than gratified over this remarkable discovery; and if Mr. Brewster could have known that you were his son, I am sure he would have been as proud of the relationship as yourself. It will certainly be a great comfort to you, throughout the remainder of your life to remember that you were his constant companion for some years, and that during that time you enjoyed his full confi• dence." "Yes, indeed, from the depths of my soul I am grateful for those years of confidential companion- ship; but, oh, his whole life seems to have been enshrouded in mys- tery, as well as my own; there was his second marriage., and the dis- covery that Allison was not his own child--" "Not his own child, Gerald !" re- peated Lady Bromley, in surprise. "No. I have not told you about that. I have not been able to talk very much about her, you know," he responded huskily;"but I will relate the whole story to you same time, after this puzzle is all solved.." The details of thestory of the death of the beautiful girt in the railroad accident were al- ways haunting him. "Then there is that inexplicable story about the present so-called Mrs. Adam Brew- ster. Ha!—" "Well—what 1" quickly inquired her ladyship, as he broke off with a• violent start, a strange luok sweeping over bis face. "Wait, wait!" be said almost breathlessly, the veins filling out suddenly upon his forehead, a dusky red suffusing his face; "I will tell you presently; excuse me a moment while I 'know," she gently returned; then, added,, with a alert: "But if you can prove that your znother was Adam Brewster's svifo it will make .that other certificate, which the present supposed Mrs,. Brewster nd us produced,yuwillabo founilld itnot be the sole heir to -the Brewster fortune "Yes --at leaet, so it seems to me," Gerald assented, "Yon will try to prove it?" "Assuredly, if I am convinced, after my investigations in New Haven, that there is the ghost of chance for me. I have been bitte ly unreconciled to' the fact th John Hubbard has secured all th wealth which, lb seemed to me u til now, should have gone to M ()buries Manning, who is the elan ter of Mr. Brewster's sister ; by on the basis of the remarkable di ()every of to -day, T shall at on begin to work for my own iutore —after consulting with Mr, Lyttl ton, of course; he will know i scantly whether 'there will be a chance for me Ea, hal" 1 laughed; out suddenly, as his mit reverted to some circumstance the past. "Why do you laugh -what amu es your inquired his friend. She' was thrillingly interested i his wonderful history, and did n wish to lose a single point. i "I was thinking of a certai some three and a ha years ago, when this man vowe that he would crush me and ever thing else that stood in his path, the young man explained, "and was wondering how he might feel if the situation was destined to b reversed." Then he told her the little :tor about the beautiful rose, which Al lison had playfully thrown at hi on that lovely summer day — how John Hubbard had afterward pur- posely knocked it to the floor and ruthlessly set his heel upon it, and warned him that it was typical of his own fate.-- "But I have it even now,"' he continued, opening a tiny locket that was attached to his watch - chain; "I carefully gathered up every leaf and petal, and, later laid them incased in this, vowing that it should be my mascot, in- stead of the symbol of my defeat and ruin." He then related, also, how the man had tampered with his book- keeping,, to make it appear that he had been defrauding his employer, t e li a oellaneous collection of stook is at kept, writes Prof, M. Cumming, at in the annual report of the Secre- te.tary of Agriculture for Nova Scotia, Air the amount of fertility removed need h not exceed about 10 per cent. of t, that which would be removed under s- the hay -and -grain systema of farm- ee ing. The important problem that ata remains is, how can the farmer get of the 90 - per cent. voided in the man - ns uro onto his fields without further an loss? The solutions of this: •depends le upon the care taken of the barn - td yard manure, which is subject to of great loss from two sources viz., leaching and fermentation. ¶io pre. 5- vent the former, he must prevent the running away of the liquid bmanure. To prevent the latter, he must keep his manure from heating. And to prevent both, he must take as his general guide the getting of If the manure on the fields, as soon d as possible after it is made. y, Suppose that a farmer, instead of I selling the.two tons of hay produced on an acre of land, feeds it to his ' dairy cows, marketing therefrom e only butter and pork. The two tons of hay, as ' above, contain $13.36 worth of fertility. There will be m sold with these about 10 per cent. of the fertility in hay, leaving $12.03 worth of fertility on the farm. Of this amount ,the equivalent of at least two-thirds willreach the fields. To this should be added the value of the vegetable matter or. humus in the barnyard manure, a value which we can scarcely quote in figures, but which constitutes, in the main, the superiority of barn- yard manure over commercial ferti- lizers. The same principles can be applied to all other fodders, and in every case it will be found that, from the standpoint of soil fertility, it pays to feed all fodders except those for which the market prices are much in excess of their fertiliz- ing value on the farm. It is not long since a large por- tion of the cottouseed meal pro- duced was sold to be applied direct' ly to the land as a fertilizer. Now it is practically all fed to cattle, with the result of not only increas- ing the milk flow and adding to the flesh, but of increasing the value of the manure heap at the rate of over $20 for each ton fed. Note, too, the high value of bran as a ferti- lizer. Through the medium of this, much of the fertilizer of the Western plains is now being transferred to the East. Compare the relatively low fertilizing value of corn with the high value of linseed and cotton- seed cake. 110.044+q+9+9 i?+9i#0+0+0+0 On the Farm STOCIf-RAISING ' AND SOIL I+"E1i,TILITY. From any farm on which a mis- and how he had caused his arses in the bank upon that fateful Sun day morning, "What a wretch!" indignantly exclaimed Lady Bromley, when h concluded. "I should"judge the ho had been a sharper from his `youth up. I wonder that so shrewd a man as you bavo represented Mr. Brewster should have become as- isociated in business with him. But I would really glory in seeing you . win the Brewster fortune from j him. Why, it seems to me that he must have been scheming for it for many years! lis jealousy of you, r connection with Allison, whom, it is evident, he intended to marry, f possible; and then, when she was so strangely removed, marry - ng that other girl, who appeared s the own and only daughter of he banker—all seem to point to that as the goal he was seeking." "Yes; those are my views exact- ly," said Gerald; "and his union with this Miss Anna Brewster •was the cleverest move of all, for to him it would prove a bulwark of safetyfor all time—providing favids P ng no other flaw was discovered in his work. If he had simply employed those women as accomplices, and then let them go, after paying them a certain price, he would al- ways have been in danger of ex- posure. Now, however, trey all have a common interest, and he never need fear any betrayal through them. But, Mr. John Hub- bard, I firmly believe that at last I have found that `pebble' for my sling 1" he concluded, with signi- ficant emphasis, "What do you mean, Gerald 1 cried Lady Bromley, laughing at his peculiar tone and language. "Enigmas appear to be the order of this remarkable day." He explained to her by relating something of his interview with Mr. Hubbard the day he had met him on the Strand, in London, when the man had twitted him with being,a braggart in assuming to be "a second David aching to slay another Goliath." "I believe I have found my peb- ble in those papers which you hold m your hands," he concluded, as he pointed to him with a finger that trembled visibly. "I believe you have, too," she gravely observed; "and"—laugh- ingly using his own smile—"your sling I know will never fail you while there is a shred of evidence left to prove your position, while something seems to tell me that you will have no diflieulty in prev- ing yourself to be Mr. Brewster's son and the only heir to his great wealth." "Ah 1 But what good.will ,it, do me naw l" Gerald burst forge -with sudden pain and passion. "It will seem but a mockery --but the bit- ter irony of fate. Oh, Allison ! Al- lison ! What is anything in life to me now that I have lost you?" Lady Bromley could have wept for him, for the anguish in his tone was like a sharp arrow in her own heart; but putting .a strong curb upon herself, aha arose and went to his side, "Put these safely away, Gerald," y room," I He sprang to the door, and was.! gone Were she could detain hini.i- The excitement of the remarkable, i revelations was also telling upon her, and, feeling almost exhausted, she sank into a chair to rest, and a to study anew the papers whlich t she still retained. Gerald was absent fully ten min- utes, and when he returned he was startlingly pale, while there was a look of stern deteimination written upon every line of his face. Hed lie some newspapers a ' sr n his P hands, "There has been a vile plot at work-! I said it! I knew it! And ow I am more strongly convinced of it than ever!" he said, almost oarsely, he was so excited, "See ere!" he went on, pointing to an niche in one of the papers; "this gives a full acount of that woman's Mem upon Adam Brewster and is estate. It also gives the date f the certificate which she brought o prove her marriage to him, and t corresponds exactly with that. pon the one you hold in your ands—April 10, 18—, is it not 1" "Yes," replied her ladyship, after referring to the document in her hands. "Then do you not see --oh! ib is all so plain to me now!" Gerald ontinued eagerly. "John Hub • and must have been at the bos- om of all that Brewster scandal and trial. He must have learned by some means of Mr. Brewster's early marriage, and that it was a secret which no one besides him self was supposed to know anything about; and the man himself being dead, and Allison also, the rest was comparatively easy for such an arch -plotter as he has always been. He must bavo come across those re- cords in New Haven, or else knownabout them, obtained the dates, names, etc., procured an accom- plice to help him carry out his theme, by appearing as the wife t that early marriage, and so man- ged, an his usually clever manner, to work up this romantic story and case, which has thrown that mag- nificent fortune into his hands." "Your reasoning certainly sounds very plausible, Gerald," responded his friend, "I shall go directly to New Ra- ven to -morrow morning and search those records for myself. I will ascertain how a person whose mai- en name was Louisa Simpson outs.' have been passed off for sins thee who was known as Miriam anis, ' said Gerald, with consist. rable warmth. "All things ere possible, you aunt, instead of my father's sister, n as I have always` supposed her to be. This, too, explains why she h was so much older than seemed con- h sistent, if she had been my own a aunt. .I have always known that' my mother's name was Miriam Harris, but I supposed that elm h married a Winchester," 0 "Well, it is all very, very t strange," thoughtfully observed Lady Bromley, "but I wonder why the knowledge of it has been kept from you 1 Why, if you are Adam Brewster's son, were you not under your father's care to profit by the advantage and position which he could have given you, instead of being committed to the care of Mise e Winchester, to be reared in such b obscurity l" t "That is a mystery to me as yet," replied Gerald, Berthing sensitively; "but I presume that Aunt Honor's letter will explain the matter. "Ohl" he continued, with a pathe- tic yearning in his voice, "why could it not have been? It seems cruel! Cruel 1 And now 'I can un- derstate' why I was so peculiarly drawn !lib Mail I often used to say to myself, when we were work- ing together in his office : `Ah! if I could only have had such a fa- ther, how proud and happy I should have been? He, too, was fond of s me, in a way, and he trusted me 0 instinctively from the first ; he once a told me that he 'would stake his fortune upon my faithfulness and integrity.' I can now understand why we were so drawn to each other —it was the tie of blood, of kin- ship, struggling for expression, for recognition," he continued, a note of exultation in his tones. He was trembling visibly, and his companion saw that it was with great difficulty he, could preserve d his self-control; e "What did I tell yon, Gerald?" e she saki, with a rogtiish smile, to I.1 change the tenor of hie thoughts, I c "Was I not, after all, a true pro - Not every farmer keeps an ac- count with his soil, yet it is bard to see how anyone, who accepts the principles laid down in the preced- ing paragraphs, can fail to estimate the importance of knowing whether his capital stock of soil fertility is decreasing or increasing, for in this way only can he expect profitable returns from his field each suede d- ing year. FARM NOTES. It is a good plan to know and note down the size of every field. Measure a clothesline, tie a stake at each end, and measure the field both ways. Then you cae estimate fertilizer, crops and land exactly. Perhaps half the failures of the average beekeeper to get a rousing crop of honey are due to his neglect to have his supplies in shape be- fore the rush comes on. For this reason it is the course of wisdom to order supplies now and have the. hives and sections ready for the season, It is moat profitable to use super- phosphate with potatoes, keeping the manure for putting in the other crops and 'dressing the meadows. Phosphate is applied very quickly in the hill, in this way sprinkling it over a space ten inches square where we plant; and it also pro- duces a better quality of potatoes, with less liability to rob. A corres- pondent has used at the rate of 300 or 400 ponds of phosphate to the acre on about all the potatoes ' he has planted. One sided exhaustion, as it is sometimes called, is a common eon dition of land, but nob sufficiently recognized. A knowledge of the different plants, and the special needs of the standard crops,, will greatly assist in judging of the real' condition and requirements of land which may appear exhausted, If land fails to yield a crop of corn or potatoes, it does not followthat all the chief elements of plant food are she said, as she placed the certifi- cates in hie hand; "then tread your aunt's letter ---you do not half -know your own history yet --for, doubt- less, it contains a great deal that will interest you, and, possibly. some other important information,' (To be continued.) lacking, and must be Supplied. Corn, clever, the grasses, potatoes and cabbage are all large can- t as st mersa# pat h, and there is na element of planbfood which in most parts of the older states, is more likely to be soon exhausted. An application of potash alone • will often cause land, to produce nearly maximum crops which previously seemed exhausted. THE VAMPIRE.. Traveller's E!KI►arfeneo With the Blood'Saokftig !bat. Our grandfathers in their little - boy days, reading in old-fashioned geographies of tropical foreste and savage beasts, found descriptionsof hone, tigers and crocodiles cheer- fully exciting; but snore than one shivering youngster, at the dread moment ofi blowing out his cham- ber candle, wished he had never heard of that uncanny and haunt ing monster, the vampire, which followed its victim to his very home and bed, and in the darkness silent- ly bled him to death as he slept. Soieuoe has long modified this fearsome tale. The vampire — the blood -sucking bat of South Ameri- ca—is not the huge, hovering hor- ror he was onoe depicted. He is but a little fellow, a winged car- nivorous mouse, and he does not slay his victims. But he does suck blood, and is an extremely trou- blesome nuisance. The late Rich- ard Spruce, . in his "Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and An -1 des," tells of his experience with the creatures, which particularly infested his house at Sao Gabriel. "When I entered it," he relates, "there were large patches of dried- up blood on the floor, which had been drawn from my predecessors by those midnight blood -letters, and my two men were attacked the first night, one of them having' wounds on the ends pf four toes, three on one foot, one on the other. The same has happened every night since, and the bats do not stop at the toes, but bite occasionally on the legs, finger -ends, nose, chin and forehead—especially of-ciril-. dren. "As I wear stockings at night, wrap myself well in my blanket and cover my face with a handkerchief, I have hitherto escaped being bit- ten; but they often come, to my hammock in search of a vulnerable point. "Surgeons boast of their painless operations now -a -days, but the vampire beats them all. I have never met a person who was awak- ened by a vampire biting him, but several have had the vampire fas- ten on them when awake, and these confirm the aeoount of the animal i ing • fanning with h s wings h r vl i i to sitalc- ing, "Tho wound shows a sound Piece of skin—often the whole thickness and .with some flesh besides, as ono happened to myself—taken completely out, as if out out with a kn115.'' At the house of a neighbor, where tate children had been much tor- mented by the vampires, the family eat, which hadbecome an expert .mouser for such winged prey, was allowed to remain in their room, and quickly assumed the duties of guardian, Every night, as soon as the, lay down, she took her post by their hammock, and no vampire alighted there after- ward, except at the instant forfeit of its life, LIEUTENA:N'I' SHACKLE:1'ON. Alan Who Almost Gained South Pole Won't Go Afoot in London. Lieut Shackleton, who got almost within hailing distance of the South Pole and then, though with miller more difficulty, got back to civiliza- tion 'again, is a persistently young man, handsome of visage, pleasant and entirely unaffected of speech. He was sometime ago secretary of the Royal, Scottish Geographical po Society, a st which iso easilysob tamed by virtue of his service to geography in the Antarctic regions. Between the conclusion of the Dis- covery expedition and his assump- tion of his duties in Edinburgh he was attached' to the literary staff of O. Arthur Pearson's publica- tione, and in his capacity as a journalist made himself deservedly popular. According to the Bystander, a prejudice` of Lieut. Shackleton is one he has against the pastime of walking.. He would invariably drive up and to away from his literary duties in a brougham, and was once known to be seriously. angry because there was no cab to. take him across the road, 3r--- Airing 'your troubles will not miti- gate them. Truth may have hid, at the bottom of a well because it was unable to make falsehood ashamed of itself, It is estimated that the popula- tion of the British Empire is 490,- 000,000, of whom 348,000,000 are na- tive races. The New Al LE 1909 CHASSIS PRICES • Delivered Cd.1. 22H.P. Duty Paid to E1Io H.P. at. 38tr • . Chassis £620 Phaeton Car 770 Limousine Car 840 Landaulette Car 850 38 H.P. ei ft, Wheelbase soh it. Wheelbase Chassis £ 790 Phaeton Car 930 Limousine Car 1050 Landaulette Car 1095 4811.1:). Chassis £725 Chassis £ 900 Phaeton Car 875 Phaeton Car 1035 Limousine Car 945 Limousine Car 1155 Landaulette Car 960 Landaulette Car 1175 57 H.P. Six Cylinder Chassis £1055 Limousine.Car 1320 Phaeton Car 1225. Landau) etta Car '13 3 I 3 For full particulars of; any of the above write to The Daimler Motor Co., (1904) Ltd. COVENTRY, ENGLAND. eseeeelleeleellonesiletteleseetetteeeeeeleff ITEALT11 ' VEl+!MIA, Ono of the ino.'sb dreadful farms that autointosioatiou, oz' solLpof• sfiuing, can take is that known as urellna, so called bocauso it bas been thought to bo caused chiefly by urea, ape of the waste pgroducts os assimtletion which it is th prnv' 1000 of the e This, However,kidisneys onlyboremova surmise., No one really knows what poison- ous substance is the direct cause of uremia, The kidneys perform such important and necessary work irthe economy of .the body that anything which causes them to "shirk their job" is a serious mat- ter, and a refusal or an inability sonpeediltheiy fr patalart. to work at all is Uremia, is almost always there- sult of a diseased state of the kid- neys. A healthy, Icidney does its work faithfully, and gets rid of poisons before they can do any harm; but diseased kidneys, and especially kidneys afflicted with Bright's disease, come to the time when they are no longer equal to their task, wheu day by day the special poisons it is their function - ,M. to—discard,- accumulate £lily ars present in such force that they are able to overthrow the whole economy, Many cases of Bright's disease terminate by uremia, which is, as a matter of fact, the natural out- come, unless they are overtaken by pneumonia or-sonro other acute trouble. But some persons, who have been apparently in good health and have never suspected them- selves, or been suspected. of any kidney trouble, develop uremio symptoms suddenly, and in those oases active treatment started at once may restore them to health, at ]east for a time. This is a rea- son why signs of uremia should be recognized at once, especially by persons who have the care of sick people, Extreme drowsiness associated with headache and vomiting should always be suspected, and immedi- ate steps taken to start the kid- neys to work, or tosetother or- gans to work to help them out, by strong purging and sweating. The first symptonis may take :the form. of a convulsion, of complete un- consciousness,: and even of mania,. but the more gradual onset is the more common. Tho drowsiness gradually be- comes more and more marked until it deepens into coma, which grows more and more profound until death conies, unless the active treatment is successful. Sometimes bleeding is resorted to under the theory that rome of the poison is in the blood, and that if a great deal of it canbe removed and then salt solution injected in- to the vein, the blood remaining in the body will be diluted and rho poison consequently 'weakened. — kouth's Companion. DANGER IN EYE POULTICES. Do not poultice an eye in any circumstances whatever.. Bindieg a . wet application aver an eye for .several hours must 'damage that eye, the assertions of ' those pro- fessing tohave pers.nal experi- ence in this to the contrary not- withstanding. The failure to ag- gravate an existing 'trouble by binding a moist application over an inflamed eye, which application is supposed to remain for an entire. night, can only be explained by , the supposition that a. guardian angel has watched over that mis- guided case and has displaced the poultice before it had got in its fine work. All oculists. condemn the poultice absolutely,' in every shape and in every form. Tea leaves, bread and milk, raw oysters, scraped beef, scraped raw turnip or raw potato, and the medley of other similar re- medies popularly recommended are one and all, capable of producing irremediable damage to the integ- rity of the.tissucs of the .visnal or 1 goo. DANGERS OF THE CORSET. Nations whose women are addicted to the use of the corset are waking up to a sense of the dangers arising from that pernicious custom. Itus- sia has forbidden girls to wear corsets, and the Minister of Educe. tion in Saxony (a kingdom of Ger- many er many containing nearly 3,000,000 in population) has decreed that girls attending public schools shall nob use stays, The physical well-being of the future generations depends upon tee mothers, and women can- not bo efficient mothers if they possess deformed bodies, Parents should take warning in time, and let no foolish fashion prevent their daughters from developing into robust and symmetrical women. Some men seem to be as anxious to separate yon from ,your time as others are to separate Boit from your money, Among the Finns and Norwegi- ans there are many women sailors. r► e'